fileutl: Use execvp() in Popen() instead of execv()

2 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/apt-pkg/contrib/fileutl.cc b/apt-pkg/contrib/fileutl.cc
index a45069ee9..67c5acee2 100644
--- a/apt-pkg/contrib/fileutl.cc
+++ b/apt-pkg/contrib/fileutl.cc
@@ -3232,7 +3232,7 @@ bool Popen(const char *Args[], FileFd &Fd, pid_t &Child, FileFd::OpenMode Mode,
       } else if(Mode == FileFd::WriteOnly)
          dup2(fd, 0);
 
-      execv(Args[0], (char**)Args);
+      execvp(Args[0], (char **)Args);
       _exit(100);
    }
    if(Mode == FileFd::ReadOnly)
diff --git a/test/libapt/fileutl_test.cc b/test/libapt/fileutl_test.cc
index b35a2d45e..2badf5465 100644
--- a/test/libapt/fileutl_test.cc
+++ b/test/libapt/fileutl_test.cc
@@ -288,7 +288,7 @@ TEST(FileUtlTest, Popen)
       OpenFds = Glob("/proc/self/fd/*");
 
    // output something
-   const char* Args[10] = {"/bin/echo", "meepmeep", NULL};
+   const char* Args[10] = {"echo", "meepmeep", NULL};
    EXPECT_TRUE(Popen(Args, Fd, Child, FileFd::ReadOnly));
    EXPECT_TRUE(Fd.Read(buf, sizeof(buf)-1, &n));
    buf[n] = 0;